Buildings Quotes · Page 5

New York's buildings must be cleaner and more energy-efficient.

— Letitia James

“Earthquakes don’t kill people; buildings kill people.”

— Anonymous

I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.

— Haile Gebrselassie

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

— Colson Whitehead

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.

— Richard Rogers

Growing up, you always heard of cops beating people up behind buildings and letting them go. Now they just shoot them.

— DJ Yella

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

— Zaha Hadid

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

— Boyd Holbrook

With Mtn Dew Game Fuel, I'm flying off buildings and hitting 360 snipes with more precision than ever.

— Dr. Disrespect

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a…

— Foster Friess

“The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of…

— Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen

In the traditional modernist planning that created the suburbs, you put residential buildings in suburban neighborhoods, office spaces into brain parks and…

— Bjarke Ingels

And what are we going to leave for future generations? Are we going to leave them only buildings, cars? Or are we…

— Daniela Vega

I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as…

— Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

“They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the…

— Dale Carnegie

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The one image that's been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from…

— Richard Drew

Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a…

— David Adjaye

The Gobi is in many ways like the old American West, filled with abandoned hamlets and buildings, traces of disappeared peoples. Across…

— Lawrence Osborne

Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people.

— Ma Yansong

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way…

— Bjarke Ingels

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and…

— Miguel McKelvey

Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage…

— Ma Yansong

I've got a design for an airship in my head, which I'm going to play around with. I've got ideas for buildings…

— Edd China

“The buildings were as real yet ethereal as the abandoned shell of a cicada, clinging to a tree branch, molded by the…

— Linda Lafferty

I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.

— Ben Katchor

I am all for greening tall buildings, but I'm also very keen to note that greening a building doesn't cope with the…

— Joseph Rykwert

I've heard a lot about the iconic buildings and all that Dubai has to offer and can't wait to experience it for…

— Pia Wurtzbach

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

— Thom Mayne

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

— Minoru Yamasaki

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

— Frank Gehry

Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes.

— Roger Scruton

My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most…

— Tanni Grey-Thompson

Medieval and Tudor people didn't treat buildings as a semi-disposable resource like we do.

— Lucy Worsley

There's this misconception globally that the platform is about property groups and big property owners renting out entire buildings full-time.

— Joe Gebbia

In every area of the world where there is earthquake risk, there are still many buildings of this type; it is very…

— Charles Francis Richter

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

— Anonymous

“In your lifetime you build two buildings, one of accomplishment, the other of failure, and only you can decide how big each…

— Collin Johnson

Every time I've flown an aircraft, or visited a steelworks, or watched a panel-beater at work, I've learned something new that can…

— Norman Foster

In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad…

— Ma Yansong